UEFA banned Albania’s Mirlind Daku for two games today having found that the footballer led fans in nationalist chants after the team’s 2-2 draw with Croatia in the men’s Euro 2024 tournament last week.

Daku took a megaphone on Wednesday in Hamburg to chant slogans against Serbia and North Macedonia.

The chants and fallout from the game have been the most serious involving Balkan politics at a Euros, with the most ever teams from the region playing — and offering a stage for some fans to air its issues.